"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."
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"Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death."
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"Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first."
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"If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!"
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"Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith."
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"It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen."
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"Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it."
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"Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best"
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"Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous"
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"It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth"
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"Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain."
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"Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . ."
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"Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat."
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"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]"
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"Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
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"At a great pennyworth pause a while."
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"Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves."
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"Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us."
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"If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life."
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"Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition."
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